The GNU tar program saves many files together in one archive and canrestore individual files (or all of the files) from that archive.

A path traversal flaw was discovered in the way GNU tar extracted archives.A malicious user could create a tar archive that could write to arbitraryfiles to which the user running GNU tar had write access. (CVE-2007-4131)

Red Hat would like to thank Dmitry V. Levin for reporting this issue.

Users of tar should upgrade to this updated package, which contains areplacement backported patch to correct this issue.

4. Solution:

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-releasederrata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to usethe Red Hat Network to apply this update are available athttp://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188